Word: beating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace with every bestiality and indignity that poverty exacts. I was the product of the gutter and the gang, the lousy, bedbug-ridden tenement, the burning streets and the empty lots. I had carried brass knucks and used them, and in my animal world, I was beaten and I beat others...
Taking the ball from Crimson defensive halfback Smith on one of the freshman's rare miscues on the day, Ruoff looked ready to beat Herold on the semi-breakaway. But out came the keeper, steady as usual, to shut the door...
...Sullivan beat Brown's defending Ivy League champion, Sue Adams, and improved her hold on the Franklin Park women's record by 17 seconds...
...minimum, little Laker Airways (eleven jets) has broken the iron grip of the International Air Transport Association (I ATA) on transatlantic pricing* and prodded the industry's giants into offering competitive fares that are lower than they ever thought they would go. Pan Am and TWA actually beat Laker into the bargain-basement blue yonder by eleven days, selling stand-by seating on regular flights for $256 round trip...
...with shrimp, and champagne. "It was really pleasant, floating past basalt cliffs covered with lichen and watching the swallows," says Ray, 63. But near the end, the Governor got the old competitive urge and suggested a race. "We put our minds and paddles to work," says Ray. "And we beat the others to the finish line...